150s

Template:Decadebox The 150s ran from January 1, 150, to December 31, 159.

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Ptolemy's Geographia is made around 150, the earliest known atlas; The La Mojarra Stela 1, dated to 156, is produced, one of the earliest known written records in Mesoamerica.

The Roman Empire was ruled by Antoninus Pius for the whole of this decade. The Roman Empire was relatively peaceful this decade, being in the middle of the Pax Romana and there being no major external wars. Claudius Ptolemy completed two major works this decade, the Geographia, the earliest known atlas, and the Almagest, a treatise accepted for over 1200 years.

Significant people

• Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (138–161)

References

• de Crespigny, Rafe (2007). A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms 23-220 AD. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004156050.